In Corr (administratix of the estate of Thomas Corr (deceased)) v IBC Vehicles Ltd [2008] UKHL 13 HL, the House of Lords has held that an employer was liable for the subsequent suicide of an employee who had had a serious accident at work six years earlier that was the result of a breach of its duty of care.

In Corr (administratix
of the estate of Thomas Corr (deceased)) v IBC Vehicles Ltd [2008] UKHL 13, the
House of Lords held that the employer of a man who was injured at work and, as
a consequence, suffered severe depression that led to suicide, was liable under
the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 for loss attributable to his suicide.

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